Learn more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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